What does those keyboard shortcuts charaters mean ?

[boxu]

see the attached pic, where are those special characters?

 

[TEG]

The Clover Leaf is Command/Apple.
The Circle with the Arrow going to the upper left is ESC (Escape).
^ means Ctrl/Control
The - with the \_ is Option/Alt
The Outlined up arrow is Shift.

TEG

 

[Galley]

Here's a nice diagram.

 

[macbook123]

I'm trying to add notes/links to a PDF document in preview, but the keyboard shortcuts (e.g. ctrl-command-N) don't work as shown under the "Tools" bar. Why?

 

[macbook123]

Follow-up question to my previous post: Is there a setting somewhere that turns on the keyboard shortcuts? I just can't understand why they don't work as advertised in my case. Could anybody check by opening a text .PDF document with Preview?

Thanks!

 

[mmduluth]

All of the keyboard shortcuts work for me in Preview with PDF files.

 

[macbook123]

All of the keyboard shortcuts work for me in Preview with PDF files.

Thanks. To add a note, do you simply press the Control, Command, and n keys?

 

[snaky69]

Thanks. To add a note, do you simply press the Control, Command, and n keys?

Yes, and it should work provided the PDF is not locked.

 

[mmduluth]

Thanks. To add a note, do you simply press the Control, Command, and n keys?

Yep that’s all I did. It may be that your file is protected so you can’t make changes to it. The files I tested on were just PDF copies of my taxes that I made so maybe that’s why I was able to do it.

 

[Epic Xbox Revie]

The point of a pdf is that you can't edit it.

 

[macbook123]

Yep that’s all I did. It may be that your file is protected so you can’t make changes to it. The files I tested on were just PDF copies of my taxes that I made so maybe that’s why I was able to do it.

Nope, that's not it. I'm able to add a note by going to Tools->Annotate, however given the number of notes I have to add this is not a practical solution.

Any other suggestions?